poppies

Poppy volunteer

June 21, 2021July 7, 2021 CatherineLeave a comment

I don’t know how this poppy seed got into the hoophouse raised bed. But it has been fun to watch it grow and bloom in an unexpected location.

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 CatherineLeave a comment

I love my field of pink poppies that grows larger every year.

Pink poppies, seed from Scott and Helen Nearing’s Good Life Center

A few flowers

July 28, 2019March 28, 2020 CatherineLeave a comment

Dahlias from Barb at the meditation center. Shasta daisies transplanted from the front garden. Poppies from seed purchased at the Good Life Center. Sunflower from ? Maybe from last year’s saved seed. Healing vibes.

Garden scan

July 20, 2019July 3, 2020 CatherineLeave a comment

Row by row scan:

Flower row with garlic bed beyond. Mostly poppies and daisies at this time, but sunflowers coming.

Three sisters row. Corn (a few stalks), squash, green beans. A few volunteer potatoes. Horseradish at one end and comfrey at the other.

Broccoli (Aspabroc and DeCicco). Started under row cover. Vulnerable to porcupines! Saved by electric fence, now harvesting. Some cabbage, I think.

Fava bean row, plus some Dazzling Blue Kale and volunteer wild arugula from last year.

Parsnips, first and second year. Turnips. Beets. And a patch of broccoli rabe bolting. Will replace with some carrots.

Mixed greens row. Chard, radicchio, ruby red orach, Salanova lettuce, escarole, some volunteer dill, baby Turkish rocket, and some room for succession planting.

Soybeans just flowering, fingerling potatoes, carrots. Artichoke at the end of this row and three others.

Tomato row. Plus one marigold at the top.

Fence row – scarlet runner beans (not shown), rudbeckia perennial, zucchini, patty pan squash, Hopi black sunflowers, Chinese cabbage.

Lettuces under the corner trellis. Also visible – a few cucumbers starting to climb.

Corner trellis report

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 CatherineLeave a comment

I spent a humid hour and a half in the garden this morning. Plants are growing and need a little help. Okay, a lot of help in some cases.

Mostly I weeded under and around the corner A-frame trellis. And laid out more hay mulch in that area.

The scarlet runner beans are just starting to bloom. Two hummingbirds perched on the tomato trellis in anticipation.

Scarlet runner beans starting to bloom behind a maze of fencing

I dug out a huge mass of white clover which was overtaking the front doorway of the A-frame. The oak leaf and Encore mix lettuces needed only a light weeding. They look great. The Ovation mix is overgrown and mostly bolted. Hard to pick it.

The arugula quadrant has not done well at all. Mostly weeds. I tried first Sylvetta with no luck, then I planted Bellezia. A few feeble sprouts. I don’t get it.

I also started to train my 8 cucumber plants to climb the trellis. Some are too short to reach it, others are just disinclined to climb.

Bianka’s white runner beans are doing nicely at the four corners of the trellis.

There are a few little green tomatoes.

The fingerling potatoes have a nasty case of aphids.

Happily, cosmos and poppy seeds have germinated in flower pots – a late experiment.

Good Life poppies

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 CatherineLeave a comment

Always a special day when the poppies first bloom. They seem so extravagant in their color and their delicacy. These were drenched in a sudden thunderstorm.

Seeds originated from the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, the farm of Helen and Scott Nearing. I first grew them last summer and saved them over the winter.